Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 June 1897 — Page 1

$5,000 Worth of

Did you think what a vast |»ile of Shoe Leatherit takes to araountto $5,000? Almost fills two large stores from floor to ceiling. Shoes of every description, of every quality. We have too many—backwood, spring leaves us overstocked. We inu>t sell them—they will be out of style by next season. There's but one way to move them. Cut the

price in half. No difference what they <x*t. The first loss is the least to us. \\Y need money. This sale is honest—we advertise only what we ean prove to you. Brin-; in your family and take advantage of buying your summer Shoes and Slippers at half eo>t. All our Shoes are warranted against ripping and will lie resewed five. See the Prices.

Infants' Soft Sok' Shoes, nke ami easy.—... infants' Black Duiigola Kid, Button, sizes ! to 5.. Children"* Dongola Britton Shoos, Spring Heel. Patent iamther Tip. sizes 5 to 8, worth 7x... hidies' Button Kid. Patent Leather Tip. Opera Tw, cheap at #1.25 ,.. lilies’ Button Donpda Hit leather Tip, #1.50 Shoe... Kid, PatSoft Soie, . s' Lailies' Sample Shoes, sizes 3s and-1-,real Donpda, Pretty Tijis.-#2.00 .quality, lake y« air choice... ........ fiOO pairs Ii«|lies*Tans,Oxl>!oods and Black Slwies. Ij»ce and Button, real Custom made, elegant £<»*ds. the grade tor this Niie ....... 116 pairs of Striker's Fine Shoes. ail kimls of Toes, Hand made. Glove fitting, fully ' warranted, worth fn-m #3 to #4 pair,‘take your pick .... Ml j»airs of Ladies’ Slippers,'SandaL and Oxfords. Patent Lather Tip, Worth from 7Ue to fiUc. i. 4s pairs of Ladies* Fine Slippers, all kinds, all »iaes, ait eoarrs. worth $1.50.^.....

$1.48 317 pairs of Ladies’Fine Sample Slippers, in every grade, in all styles, all suce>, worth $2.75 to $3.00. . | ---- ' * j ! ‘..*63 pairs Boys’ Laoe Coin Toe, nobby dress Shoes, worth up to'$2.00. ; 111 |>airs Fine Hand randeSlip1*ts, Tans, Oxblootte and (lacks, at $2.00 and $2.50, take your choice .... I 319 pairs Men’s Congress or Lace, Solid Sole, good enough for Sunday ..... !519 }>airs Famous Parks and itazzard Shoes, mamifac- ' turvr.-' juice $1.75, sale price.... - 249 pairs Men’s Creediuore Plow Shot's, all Solid $1.50 quality. 211 pairs Men's Low. Lace, Pointed Cap Toe, sold at $2.00. A few pairs of the Ctdebrated VV. L. Lkniglass $■> Shoe, style not quite up to date, Black or Tau.. 75 pair* James MeansOne Price $2.50 Shoe, we must close them ......... 129 pairs Men’s Sample Shoes, a!) styles and kinds, sold at $3.00. Special value., !

Remember the entire line of Shoes in both our Stores are include*! in this sale Don't wait,-every day is golden. Your dollar will do double duty at our Stores now. Sale positively closes dune 15th. W. V. Hargrove & Co Accya&atoxa of i ! The Peoples' Dr; Goods Store aid Star Clothiag House, PETERSBURG, INDIANA

VISIT THE CITYOFGAS i People Floek Here to Listeu to Jumbo’s Koar. Three Excursions Bring in 1500 - People last Thursday. A Splendid Exhibition and the Visitors Well Pleased With the Trip.

Wbat the 3irw\|iapor« Think •( the Juuibo Ga» Well. On last Thursday evening at 7 30 o’clock the Jumbo natural gas wejl of the world was turned loose again for the benefit of the, thousands of visitors who had come for miles for that especial purpose, and the roaring and screeching could be heard and seen for miles, and was witnessed by no less than fi.WO people. Three excursion trains ■were run to this point that evening; one from Evansville, one from Terre Haute and one from Washington, bringing in nearly 1500 people. There were also a number of people here from along the Air Line rail toad, coming here for the express purpose of hearing ami seeing the Jumbo gas well of the world. The visitors all con* ceded that it was ihe greatest sight that they had ever witnessed and they all went home well pleased with the exhibition. Jumbo is conceded to be the strongest well ever struck in Ohio or Indiana, and has220 pounds more rock pressure than any well ever found in this state. The rock pressure of the well is 073 pounds and' is just as strong as the day it was tir.-t tested, more than a month ago. To show the people just how much gas is burned at each exhibition it is only necessary to say that if the company that owns Jumbo were receiving pay for each exhibition it would cost $500 every time the well was turned loose*. As has been proved by the tester tW volume of the well is about 4,000,000 cubic feet per day, which comes rushing from a depth of 1101 feet with a rock pressure of 570 pounds. This immense pressure makes the solid earth tremble and with a noise equal to that of 100 locomotives blowing off steam. The experience of this well proves that a well can l»e drilled on every eighty acres on the surrounding territory without apparently interfering with the output ojf any neighboring well. As the trains came iuto town loaded down with sight-seers they were met by a delegation, of citizens who showed them about town and to the place where i>located Jutnbo. It was a hungry crowd and soon the hotels and cat mg houses were crowded with the visitors. They were supplied to a queen's taste. The streets were lined with the visitors who * ‘took in,” as it were, the fine location of the town with its broad streets and fine business houses and elegant mansions, ami many were* the expressions of surprise at so pretty a little city. The large crowd of sight-seers were orderly and were here for the purj>ose of seeing the greatest gas well in the world. That they were repaid for their visit goes without

saying, a> expert »arner gave one of the finest exhibitions of natural gas that ha> ever been made in the state. Many gas experts were here and they alt pronounced the well as a wonder and with the greatest power that they had ever witnessed. Men of capital were here to look over the territory and see what is to be seen and to make a thorough examination of the new gas leiritory. That they are pleased with the outlook is attested by the numerous letters that have been received from them since their rot urn home. The staff correspondents for a number of newspapers were present to write up the new gas territory for their papers, and Petersburg is now one of the best known littie cities in the country. She is known far and near as the new Gas City oi the South and as possessing the greatest bituminous coal fields in the United States, and a place suited for manufacturers above all other sections. The visitors of last Thursday night went home, as we have said before, well repaid for their long trips and will come again, and ere this have sung the praises of Petersburg and her wonderful Jumbo gas well and rich coal veins. It is safe to say that when the mil roads announce other excursions that it: will take every coach and box car to bring the people to this point. The newspapers all speak well of the town igal

its people and talk about our gas in fine style. . The citizens of Petersburg have organ-; ized what is known as the People's industrial association for the sole purpose of promoting the interests of the city and county, and they have unanimously decided not to build a Chinese wall about the city, but on the contrary unite their combiued efforts and invite labor and capitalists far and uear to join in with both hands and | make Petersburg and Pike county the ban- j ner manufacturing centre of the world. We need your help and waut your good will and are willing that you share iiuthe profits of this great enterprise in the upbuilding of the city of Petersburg. As it is now that Petersburg with her unlimited amount of cheap coal and since the discovery of an apparently never failing supply of natural gas this city can claim commandiug attention from capitalists aud manufacturers. The citizens have banded together and will raise a reasonable sum in cash to secure the location of manufacturing plants of an approved class that will locate permanently. as profits derived from j the rapid aud constant increase in the marked value of their property which will I be due to the growth of population in the location of new industries, and the direct improvements of the city gives them the assurance of their money being returned. Any information desired will be gladly furnished by addressing W. 11. Foreman, j president, or M. McC. Stoops, secretary of , the industrial association.

i SAY SOMETHING OK PETERSBURG. i - What tk« Newspaper Hraternit j' Think of Our Natural Oaa. “ALL ON THK 4VJIP.” This has bwti the greatest day in the history of Petersburg and the event will not ' soon be forgotten by its inhabitants. The town was in holiday attire and business was j practically suspended. Three excursion ! trains brought hundreds of people to the town, anxious to see the great “Jumbo” gits well in operation. They came from every direction and when they witnessed ! the grand illumination tonight caused by i the lighting of the well they were satisfied, aiid returned to their homes impressed with the fact that the little capttal city of Pike, j that has been apparently sleeping for years. ! has a future that is more than hopeful. All day the principal streets of the town were filled with people. Tonight the crowds I increased in size and.by S o’clock it is estimated that there were 6,(XX) strangers in i the city. Farmers came on horseback ami abandoned their work for the opportunity of witnessing an event that they had never before seen, ^legations from Evansville, Princeton, Klberfield, Elliott, Mac-key, ! Oakland City. Winslow, Littles, Hosmer, Washington. Terre Haute, Vincennes, ! Huntingburg, Sullivan, Montgomery, Wheatland and Worthington helped to : swell the crowds. Evansville sent over 200 people, while Terre Haute, the little village on the Wabash, went it 2U0 better. The visitors were royally received by the jaople of Petersburg and many of them received impressions of the place that will be lasting. The delegations who came by rail were met at the depot by a committee of business men. The hotels of the town were crowded with strangers during the day, and many of them were turned away. The ladies of j the Methodist church served meals iu the'! court house yard, while the ladies of the Cumberland Presbyterian church were prepared **to feed the hungry multitudes” iu the Shawhan budding on Main street. Mr. Charles Schaefer, the proprietor of the Pike hotel, said he never saw during his residence of over thirty years in Petersburg, as many strangers on a similar mission. Mr. j Schaefer said things were booming and the |

“little burg uu Pride's creek*' bids fair to become a second Evansville. At *:4o o'clock tonight the big “Jumbo** well was lighted aiid the spectacle was a mo«.t beautiful one. Long before this hour hundreds of peopie had gathered in the near vicinity. Along the road bed of the E. & I. railroad for fully one half mile was a grbat mass of surging humanity. The people waited patiently for the time to arrive when the word would be given for the lighting of the j gas. At the appointed hour .Mr. Warner, the gas expert, announced that everything was in readiness. He turned the huge valve, and when the gas began to escape the match was applied. Ail at once there was a roaring, seething muse, that could be plainly heard for five miles ami a brilliant flame shot from the pipe that illuminated a space fully four miles square. A large j pipe trad been extended frimi the well along the ground for a distance of about fifty yards and through this the gas was permitted to escape. The full pressure of the well was not turned on at no time during the night, * • * The appearance of the town has greatly changed and a stranger cannot fail to notice the improvement. The business men have no time to sell 1 goods, so busy are tiiey explaining to strangers the wonders of “Jumbo.*’ They are elated over their prospects and fee*

confident that they are upon the verge of a boom that means the transformation of their pretty little town into a thriving prosperous city. * *—Evansville Courier. THERE IS XO DOUBT ABOUT IT. That Petersburg has natural gas and in large and permanent quantities is hardly a questiou now, so elaim those persons who have had years of experience in gas belts, i Since the find was .first struck there has been a continual pressure of 575 pounds. It has^never lessened but on two or three occasjjgns increased a few pounds. How- j ever, the exact pressure is 575 pounds. The ; well is now under perfect control and work has already commenced toward "piping the city. Thursday was a gala day for Peters-. burg. It had been extensively advertised j that Jumbo gas well Would be lighted | Thursday night and as a result there was :

hu immense crcwu m uie cuy. excursion trains were run on the E. & I. from Evans- j ville and Terre Haute ami all way stations. I These trains alone brought iti several j thousand people, and with Petersburg's ! own citizens and people from the country j and surrounding counties the crowd was ; swelled until many estimated it at 6,000 or j 7,000 people and a few put it as high:as 0,000. About 8 o’clock the well was lighted ami a flame shot out twenty feet high ami fully forty feet long. As the gas rushed through the pipes it roared until it could be heard for many miles. People applauded with delight. The sight was a beautiful one and the well was left burning until j after 10 o'clock when the excursion traius j started back. Petersburg citizens well entertained the visitors. There was plenty to eat and it was a good quality, too. And there was plenty to drink also. The ’‘booze” shops did a land office business but not a great many drunks were noticed. Several special policemen were sworn in and succeeded admirably in keeping down trouble. Six hundred ami sixteen tickets were sold from this city.—Washington Gazette. - -o— SATISFACTORY AND CONCLUSIVE. About 8.000 people were present at the exhibit of the gas well at Petersburg, Thursday night, and the exhibition was satisfactory and conclusive. An excursion j from Terre Haute passed through this city at 4:80 p. in., carrying about 700 persons from along the line, and an excursion from this city at 7:30 carried some 450 more, 616 tickets from this station l«eiug sold for Petersburg. Our Pike county friends en-; tertained the large crowd in an excellent manner and those who attended weiv satisfied everyway.—Washington Advertiser. —o— WONDER AND ADMIRATION OF ALL. Petersburg had for its guests last night the largest crowd that ever ass^4bbled in Pike county. Three excursion trains—one from Terre Haute, one from Washington and one from Evansville—carried over 2.000 people into the city ami hundreds of people j from the surrounding counties drove into the place to see the Jumbo gas well of Indiana. At 8 o’clock the gas was ignited ami a flame nearly 50 feet long and 20 feet high shot out. It was a grand sight. The roar from the escaping gas could be heard for a great distance. The flame was not extinguished until after 10 o'clock, when the excursion trains started back from whence j they came. Jumbo is said to be the second ! greatest well in the United States, having! a rock pressure of 575 pounds to the square j inch and a volume of 4,000,0000 cubic feet j per day. When turned on to its full capacity the n>.tr of escaping gas and the j illumination can be heard and seen for j miles. It is the wonder and admiration of | all who see it. Six hundred and sixteen excursion tickets were sold at the E. & 1. tie (ait at this place yesterday afternoon ami last night.—Washington Democrat.

ALL SURFACE GAS AT OAKLAND. ! When a town can attract two thousand or more jieople to its bonier?, no matter: what the occa>ion may be, they should j “spread themselves" to make tiic crowd. feel repaid for the visit. It is safe to say . that nearly every man. woman ami child that went to Petersburg yesterday coot- j plained at the eutertainmeut. True, they j all saw the gas well—the central attraction j —but then how easy ami how cheap a few extra courtesies would have been. More! liberal treatment of the guests would have * resulted in a double benetit to the town. Clamshness don't pay. Petersburg has a tiue gas well, but gas wells alone are not town boomers. A golden opportunity was lost last night.—Oakland City Journal. AWFUL POWER OF JUMBO. The party that left this city yesterday afternoon to s-e the womlerful Jumbo gas well at Petersburg, arrive*! at that place at \ 4:15 o'clock in the afternoon, and, leaving the depot, going south on the track of the E. & 1. railroad about three quarters of a mile to the Woolley coal mine on the east side of the track, about 100 feet north of the tip house of the mine, and about 100 feet from the railroad is a rough box house about six feet square: looking within you can see a pipe arisiug front the ground

about six inches in diameter, with two large values about three feet apart, aud at the intersection of the pipe joints, in two places water is forcing itself up at the joints; tho lower one throws up sulphur water that a j>erson don’t care to smell very long at'-a-x time, above this several inches is another jet of pure salt water, tin cups are handy so you can sample the water, and once is enough, a person will not, care to take a second drink. This pipe is about eight feet high and at the top an elbow joint, from which a 50 foot three inch pipe extends in an angle to the ground on the north side, this is the great Jumbo. The well Is 1,161 feet deep and one is disappointed in not seeing more than they do, but they cannot realize what is "inside of those pipes until the pressure is turned on. At 8:45 o’clock last night when the railroad track was lined with people for about a half mile, the valves

were unscrewed and the uwful power of Jumbo was beheld. Such another rushing, roaring and shrieking noise no one has ever heard only from a gas well. The gas being ignited, the flames shot out along the ground from 90 to 100 feet, with a roar that could lie heard for several miles and the light seen for a long distance. The force turned on was.about one-thihl of the pressure, as the managers are afraid to let on all the pressure and no one would care to be very close if they did let her go in full force. That they have natural gas af Petersburg is an undisputed fact, but to an outsider it lqoks like they arc in the same predicament as the old farmer who attended a sale of a circus and menagerie ami bought an elephant, ‘Tve got the dinged thing, what will I do with it?" There were three excursion 'trains into Petersburg yesterday evening from Terre Haute, Washington and Evansville, which brought in about 1,200 people to see the sight, and all weut away well paid for their trip, with the display of uatural gas.—Princeton Democrat. “*THE HALF HAS SoT^VkT BEEN TOLD.” Some two hundred of Evansville’s population wo£|to Petersburg yesterday on the E. & I. excursion to take a look at Pike county's famous gas well. Every one saw it, too, and they all say that “the half has never been told" concerning this one of nature’s wonders. Excursions were run into Peteisburg yesterday from all the surrounding country, and at least 5,COO people enjoyed the hospitality of the new center of the gas belt. The touching off of the well was a sight that will furnish all who saw it a subject of conversation for days to come. The blaze from the burninir well could be seen at a great distance, and the roar of the “gusher” sounded louder than the rumble of any freight train. Preparations are being made to driil other wells, and before long “we shall see what we shall see.”— Evansville Journal. A Valuable Prescript tea. Editor Morrison of Worthington Ind., “Sun,” writes: “You have a valuable prescription in Electric Bitters, aiul i can cheerfully ree on mend it for constipation and sick headache, and as a general system tonic it has iu> equal ” Mrs. Annie Stehle, -2U2S Cottage Grove Ave.. Chicago, was all run down, could not eat nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and lelt tired and weary, but six Unties of Electric Hitlers restored her healtu and renewed her strength. Prices oO cents and $l.0U. Get a bottle at J. It. Adams & Son’s drug store. Climate and Health. In regard to climate. Pike county is all right. Of course we do not enjoy the balmy climatic conditions characteristic of Italy or Southern California, but we have no sweltering hot sjiells during 1 he summer, nor extreme continuous cold during the winter season. The climate may be considered quite equable for this jiortion of the United States. The blizzards and hot winds ate unknown and up to date no cyclones have visited the countv. So in regard to wind storms our people feel comparatively secure. The climate is conducive to go>si health. There is no malaria and the low death rate demonstrates beyond a question of doubt that Petersburg is healthy. There are no bogs or swamps near by breed disease. The city is neat, healthy and clean, and all who wish to locate where health, society, education, religion ami enterprise arc |iaraiuount features. will litui this place the emUaliment of their ideal.

“For three years we have never been without Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera anti Diarrhoea Remedy in the ho use,”.-ays A.H. Fatter, with E. C. Atkins & Co. Indianapolls, lnd..‘"and my wile would as soon think of being without flour as a bottle of this remedy iu tlie summer season. We have used it with all three of our children and it has never failed to cure—not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is all rijiht, and anyone who tries it will find it so.** For sale by J. K. Adams & Sou. j Don't neglect a cold because the weather is pleasant; before the next stonn rolls around it may develop into a serious difficulty I>eyond repair. One Minnie Cough Cure is easy to take and will de what its name implies. J. It. Adams 4k Sun.